The 1985 Kyoto Prize Workshops

Forum:"New Development in Information and System Theory"

Claude Elwood Shannon

/　　Information Scientist

Basic Sciences

Mathematical Sciences（including Pure Mathematics）

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1985

11 /12 Tue

9:30 - 16:55

Place： Kyoto International Conference Center

Address：Takaragaike, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-0001 Japan

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Program

Moderator	Toshiyuki Sakai Member Kyoto Prize Screening Committee in Advanced Technology; Professor, Faculty of Engineering, Kyoto University

9:30

Introductory Remarks	Kazuo Inamori President, The Inamori Foundation

9:33

Opening Remarks	Heisuke Hironaka Chairman, Kyoto Prize committee in Basic Science; Professor, Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Kyoto University

9:50

Speech	Takashi Hashimoto Instructor, faculty of engineering, Kyoto University

10:30

Speech	Michihiko Mino Instructor, Faculty on Engineering, Kyoto University

11:10

Speech	Shun’ichi Amari Professor, Faculty of Engineering, the University of Tokyo

11:50

Comment	Claude E. Shannon Laureate in Basic Science

12:00

Luncheon

Moderator	Nobuhide Suda Professor, Faculty of Engineering Science, Osaka University

13:00

Lecture	Rudolf E. Kalman Laureate in Advanced Technology

14:00

Speech	Tsuyoshi Matsuo Lecturer, Faculty of Engineering, Nagoya University

14:40

Speech	Shinzo Kodama Professor, Faculty of Engineering, Osaka University

15:20

Intermission

15:35

Speech	Katsuhisa Furuta Professor, Faculty of Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology

16:15

Speech	Hideki Kimura Assistant Professor, Faculty of Engineering Science, Osaka University

16:55

Closing Remarks	Yoshifumi Sakurai Vice Chairman, Kyoto Prize Committee in Advanced Technology; Professor Emeritus, Osaka University

Laureates

Claude Elwood Shannon

Information Scientist

The creator of information theory. In the late 1940s, he established a mathematical method to analyze the quantity, reliability, transformation, and equivalence relations of information, and laid the foundation for remarkable developments in today’s telecommunications.

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date: Tuesday, November 12, 1985
place: Kyoto International Conference Center